About Karen
Karen Egertson is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 17 years of experience in California. She focuses on practical, steady support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. Her approach centers on helping clients build confidence and grow motivation one step at a time.
She treats trauma and abuse concerns with care and attention to safety. She helps people manage anger and compassion fatigue and supports those dealing with job changes or career uncertainty.
Background and approach
She also works with relationship and family-related problems, and offers coaching-style support when clients want clearer goals or stronger follow-through. Karen believes clients know their own stories best. She listens for strengths and uses them as starting points.
Sessions are collaborative and focused on small, doable changes rather than long lists of tasks. Her work includes practical tools for day-to-day life. That can mean strategies for organizing routines, ways to reduce anxious thinking, or methods to rebuild trust after loss.
She adapts her pace to each person so progress feels manageable. People who choose Karen often want straightforward guidance and a steady ally during life transitions. She aims to make the process understandable and usable.
The goal is clearer thinking, calmer days, and more confidence moving forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Evidence-based techniques focus on clear, teachable skills you can use between sessions. One common approach emphasizes building routines and organizational strategies to reduce overwhelm and improve focus, which can help with ADHD, stress, and day-to-day task management. Another approach centers on processing strong emotions and past hurts through paced talk and grounding exercises to reduce reactivity and support recovery from trauma and grief.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust based on what helps. This is a collaborative process that aims to match practical tools to your life and preferences rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online care offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and teaching new skills, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions, share quick updates, or get short coaching-style prompts. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep progress moving even when life is hectic.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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